Understanding brain code, and connecting it with a computer chip, is the next pivotal frontier, analogous to how cracking the DNA code astronomically progressed science.
—Caroline Rothstein, in “Implant Memory Chips in Our Brains,” a Big Think interview with Gary Marcus
When we’re shown trust, our brains motivate us to be trustworthy. It’s a beautiful kind of system.
—Neuroeconomist Paul Zak, in a Big Think interview, on his research involving the effects of oxytocin
Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don’t have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
—Neurophilosopher Sam Harris, author of The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, in a Wired interview (Nov. 2010)
Any time we create a centralized metric, we yoke the way science is done to that metric.—Physicist Michael Nielsen in his blog post, “The ...
